Sailing v. Wallestad’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2000
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McCauley v. International Trading Co. · Kuklinski v. Dibelius · Loizzo v. Conforti
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In the great majority of automobile accident cases the comparison of negligence is for the jury, and the instances in which a court can rule as a matter of law that the negligence of a plaintiff equaled or exceeded that of a defendant are extremely rare.’ ” Sailing v. Wallestad (1966), 32 Wis. 2d 435, 438 , 145 N. W. 2d 725 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence did not reveal sufficient reaction time available for there to be an issue of management and control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.